Quotes from Judah Friedlander


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You jump on a bike and start peddling. You fall down and you get up again. I've always been a 'learn by doing' kind of guy.


I've been doing stand-up since '89.


I never wanted to be famous.


I've done all kinds of movies, but I wanna do some more independent films that are not your run-of-the-mill type movies like 'American Splendor', which I had a big part in, that are really trying to do something unique.


You can literally walk into my apartment and sit on a hat; you can step on a hat; you can probably open up the refrigerator and find a hat tucked under some rotten food. I have a lot of hats.


When I'm not filming anything or on the road doing stand-up, I'm usually doing stand-up shows every night - usually a few shows a night at different clubs in the city.


Let's say there was a fat guy heckling me. I would rip him to shreds, but I would never go for the obvious, never talk about how he's fat or anything.


I get hecklers all the time!


I had one girl send me an e-mail saying she wants to go out with me, but it's like a two-pronged deal because she wants to blog the date. And I'm like, No! I don't want to be on a reality show.


Before I started doing '30 Rock', I did about 25 movies. I'd always been doing stand-up every night, and then I would do, like, two to four movies a year. So I really liked doing that, and I want to get back to that, but because of the time commitment to '30 Rock', there's not much time to do that stuff.


I need to get a wife. But it's hard, you know, it's hard to find a girl you can trust. Some of these girls, they want to go out with you so they can blog about you.


There's a lot of thought that goes into every single thing I wear.


Stand-up is kind of like my home base, and doing stand-up in New York is what I like doing most.


Sometimes '30 Rock' was a struggle because I'd be doing the show and still be doing stand-up full-time.


Soccer and ping-pong are my two favorite sports to play.


Paul Verhoeven might be my favorite director, and I'm serious.


My act's not heavy on pop culture or stories, just lots of jokes.


It wasn't like I just woke up and said, 'Here's my gimmick; I'll wear a hat and put something weird on it.'


In Manhattan, I often do two or three or more shows a night, so I'm always working on new material.


If you are doing stand-up comedy, you have to be confident in what you are doing. That doesn't mean just because you are confident you are funny.